<VV> New "stock" tires for LM's

[Marc Marcoulides]

When I replaced my tires on my 65 Corsa the installer insisted that he was correct in putting 30 lbs on all 4. When I complained he opened the driver door and looked in the jamb, nothing there. I advised that showing correct pressure started in the '80s and my car was a 65. Had to approach the manager who personnaly took the fronts to 24 and the rears to 28. The installers age was somewhere in that range.




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>From: Seth Emerson via VirtualVairs <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
>Sent: Mar 24, 2020 6:36 PM
>To: larry at forman.net, virtualvairs at corvair.org
>Subject: Re: <VV> New "stock" tires for LM's
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>For regular driving, you are probably fine. Be sure to keep your tire pressures correct. 
>The store may, or may not, have a clue. As you noted.
>-Seth
>
>
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>From: larry--- via VirtualVairs <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
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>Sent: Tue, Mar 24, 2020 3:30 am
>Subject: Re: <VV> New "stock" tires for LM's
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>The two tires I got for my 65 Monza at America's Tire Store in
>Sacramento were: 
>
>Milestar Touring SLE, P175/80R13 M+S with narrow white walls.  They were
>about $53 each and two mounted and balanced were $163 out the door with
>new valve stems.  However, they were out of the extreme extended valve
>stems, so I had to reuse my valve stem extenders for the original hub
>caps. 
>
>They had to order them from one of their warehouses and they got them in
>about 3 days here in Sacramento. 
>
>Note: you do need to tell them what tire pressures they should have for
>the front tires as they had already pressurized them about 35 PSI. 
>
>I was in and out in about an hour with an appointment.  For the social
>distancing they ask customers to wait in their car and pull their car up
>for service, which seems about perfect in today's environment. 
>
>Larry
>
>On 2020-03-22 9:57 pm, larry--- via VirtualVairs wrote:
>
>> Since I live in CA and have bought a lot of tires at America's Tire
>> Store, I called them last week and they installed two of those tires for
>> $163 complete.  That was the only tire they could find, but the price
>> seemed right.  
>> 
>> Larry
>> 
>> On 2020-03-22 10:12 am, edward szuch via VirtualVairs wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm looking for a new set of "stock" tires for my 66 Corsa.  I want to keep
>>> the stock appearance and am looking for the narrow whitewall (or close to
>>> it).  I currently have a set of '96 Goodyear Decathlon tires on it in our
>>> typical P185/80R-13 size.
>>> The only tires I can find in this size are the Maxxis whitewalls listed at
>>> Amazon.
>>> Does anybody know of a different source?
>>> Second question.....I'll need to replace the valve stems as well.  With all
>>> the Chinese suppliers for just about everything, are there any I should
>>> stay away from or features to avoid (I know, a valve stem is pretty
>>> simple)?  I've run into problems with American companies using Chinese
>>> sourced junk so I'm just a bit leery.
>>> Thanks very much.
>>> Gary Szuch
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